I know, I know, I have a lot of work to do...I shouldn't be doing
this. I did get to play with PCRE regexps here, though...lotsa cool
features over eregs!. Anyway, here's a *** NEW!!! IMPROVED!!! ***
version of smart_ucwords(), that's probably way too much overkill. I
did some quick tests, seems to work. Beware of email-induced
line-wrapping, particularly in the comment black & quoted strings:
<?php
function smart_ucwords($String, $ForceCase=1, $CapitalizeTrailing=1) {
################################################################################
#
# A more sophisticated approach to title-casing.
#
## PARAMETERS
##################################################################
#
# $String string Input string.
# $ForceCase 0|1 If true, will force title case (only
first letter
# capitalized, no matter what case the
string is in.
# $CaptializeTrailing 0|1 If true, will capitalize a normally-excepted
# word if it is the last word in the
string. So, a
# string like 'Shot In the Dark, A'
works properly.
#
## USAGE NOTES
#################################################################
#
# The Exception List words should be in the case you desire;
normally this will
# be lowercase.
#
# The Invariant List contains words and titles (eg; NASA, MySQL, PostGreSQL,
# eBusiness) whose capitalization should be fixed, no matter what.
#
# If one of these arrays is not to be used, simply set it to array().
#
## MODIFICATION HISTORY
########################################################
#
# 14 august 2001: S. Edberg, UCDavis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
# Original
#
################################################################################
$EXCEPTION_LIST = array(
'a', 'an', 'and', 'at', 'but', 'for', 'nor', 'or', 'some',
'the', 'to', 'with'
);
$INVARIANT_LIST = array(
'NASA', 'MySQL', 'PostGreSQL', 'eBusiness'
);
# First, strip & save leading & trailing whitespace
preg_match(
'/^(\s*?)(.*)(\s*)$/U',
($ForceCase ? strtolower($String) : $String),
$StringParts
);
# Replace exception words
$String = ucwords($StringParts[2].($CapitalizeTrailing ? '' : ' '));
foreach ($EXCEPTION_LIST as $Word) {
$String = preg_replace("/(\s+)$Word(\s+)/i", "\\1$Word\\2", $String);
}
# Replace invariants
$String = " $String ";
foreach ($INVARIANT_LIST as $Word) {
$String = preg_replace("/(\s+)$Word(\s+)/i", "\\1$Word\\2", $String);
}
# Replace whitespace and return
return $StringParts[1].trim($String).$StringParts[3];
}
?>
At 4:09 PM -0500 8/13/01, Jeff Oien wrote:
>Fabulous. Thanks to Steve and Mark. Exactly what I needed.
>Jeff Oien
>
>> >Something like this, perhaps (untested):
>>
>> I needed this too so I just tested it.
>>
>> >function smart_ucwords($String)
>> >{
>> >
>> > $ExceptionList = array('the', 'an', 'a'); # should all be in
>> >lowercase
>> >
>> > $String = ucwords(strtolower(ltrim($String))); # LINE A
>> >
>> > foreach ($ExceptionList as $Word)
>> > {
>> > $String = eregi_replace("[[:space:]]+$Word[[:space:]]+",
>> >$Word, $String);
>> > }
>>
>>
>> this line should be more like:
>> $String = eregi_replace("([[:space:]]+)".$Word."([[:space:]]+)",
>> "\\1".$Word."\\2", $String);
>>
>> > return $String; # LINE B
>> >
>> >}
>>
>> thanks!
>> - Mark
> >
>
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